MAC Security product

[matt_london]

<PRE>I've got a mac Mini and I'm trying to decide which virus/security product to use. Currently considering Norton or Intego Virus Barrier. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks. </PRE>

[gary baldy]

Dont sue me when you get one but us mac users are thankfully pretty virus free. Have you ever had a mac before and if so did you get any viruses? Ive been on mac for years and never had any anti virus software and never had any problems (in fact the only trouble i did have was when i did install norton and everything went haywire - i uninstalled it two days later). watch me get a virus now!

[Morgus]

Hi to a fellow Mac user!

At the moment we're lucky as we're such a small target that there really aren't any viruses aimed at us but it will happen one day. We're immune to standard PC viruses.

I've used Norton Antivirus which was good.. but I did find (we had it on 7 Macs at work) that sometimes it conflicted with PDF-making. If you're not into that sort of stuff then you should be fine. Certainly the Norton Personal Firewall is very good.

I'd check out the Apple website in the Discussions and see what seems to be most popular. You could post a question there and any number of Mac superbrains will help you.

Just for info, the official line from Apple's site is:
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Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one program to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here are some of the available antivirus utilities:

Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh (formerly SAM)
Publisher: Symantec
License: commercial

Virex
Publisher: McAfee
License: commercial

This article provides information about a non-Apple product. Apple Computer, Inc. is not responsible for its content. Please contact the vendor for additional information.
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Hope this helps.

[Pat Flanel]

Have alook at ClamAVX its free and will do almost everything. Oh and did I mention its free.....